[Galaxy S II General] MikeChannon:
This was an interesting thread with some good ideas, suggestions and opinions on both sides. We had those for and against the splt and even a couple saying even more splitting would be a good idea.

But posts like this are hardly constructive and frankly offensive. We have different pressures to asuage here. Different groups and opinions to please. The balance isn't always easy and we have made an initial response to criticisms that we are obscurring different types of work by lumping together quite different types of ROMs. For some it is important to distinguish the different types yet splitting them means Users will need to look at two seperate forums. Not an easy balance to get right and maybe there is a better way than having to trawl through dozens of ROMs all jumbled together and new ones arriving daily.

BUT we do not expect NOR deserve to have our efforts described as "Nazi manoeuvres", "pathetic" and practicing favouritism like a ""good ole' boys club", nothing else". Such offensive comments make me sad and disappointed to think we have members who think this way. An incredible number of hours are volunteered by Mods and Admin behind the scenes and we try, as in this case, to respond to complaints that ROM Development forums needed sorting out and different kinds of ROM seperated out.

Not at all sure what the problem is here. It appears that a Developer group is in favour of the splitting of ROMs and seeks to enlist support to that view by voting on the poll.

Those that are against splitting the forum I'm sure are using this thread and other double post threads to campaign for keeping the ROMs together.

No big issue or anything untoward here. Both sides want to enlist support - nothing unexpected there.

Two issues here. First PMs are a private matter and without the permission of the other party, then you breach personal trust by publishing it. In any case the information you gave is not the full picture and so it stands as an accusation against a Mod that cannot be tested for fairness. Just not appropriate to post it here.

The other matter you raise is whether a Developer for a device should be a Moderator for that device forum. The answer to that is yes, in fact where possible we prefer Mods who own the device and if they also develop for it so much the better.

That said, although I personally respect our Mods honesty, I guess there will be those that don't trust our Mods to be impartial. For this reason, we have a Developer Committee (7 members) who make many of the decisions regarding issues where a single Mod might be seen to be "partial".

What will be necessary in determining what category a ROM belongs to, will be a clear and as far as possible, easily understood set of criteria upon which ROMs are classified. With this, it would be possible for anyone with appropriate skills, to see whether a ROM has been categorized correctly. At the moment, the people doing the analysis have some basic criteria in mind, but it does need to be spelled out.

Overall, an observation I would make is that most of you on both sides here, seem to be implying that some ROMs are "better" than others or that the purpose of seperation is to make some kind of statement that one kind is better than another. As a user of both types, I do like to know the difference, because I may have specific intentions in mind when using one type or another. I'd say I use more themed type ones than originals in their pure form. Never have I thought about one type being better or worse, though I'd be an idiot to think they are all the same and it doesn't matter at all what the heck I'm installing!

Please, be constructive here, ideas are what we need. We do have integrity AND feelings, so please no more Nazi comments, we can do better than that;):D